seriously.. what is wrong with fcp

[Aaron Neitz]

Did anyone answer your question – or just get defensive?

I always press the “f” key for matchframe and it’s never failed (make sure only the targets for the audio are on, though, or it’ll match back to video layers) OR use the matchframe button which is the furthest right round button in the record viewer.

[Cee Dee]

yeah i tried that.. i guess it was a render issue… People do get defensive… I dont think there is anything wrong with pointing out flaws from someone who is used to working on another system. I’m asking for work arounds here… And i have the final cut book for avid editors but it doesnt mention everything..

heres another “flaw” in fcp 🙂

Import cd tracks with no title names and youll have the generic track 1, 2, 3.

import about 5 more but place them in another folder…

So your bins and filenames are

MUSIC/XXX ARTIST/track1.aif
music/crappy artist/track1.aif
music/blah/track1.aif

then do copy media and project. now all the media is in one folder… so when you open up your sequence and it looks for the specific track1.aif it will link you to the incorrect track1.aif

For those saying theres nothing wrong, please promise me youll never upgrade 🙂 ok back to fcp, ill use this forever, i just want things improved.

[Cee Dee]

ok im done with this post.. i just need to learn this software a bit more… end of it.. thanks for the replies

[Jeremy Garchow]

Did Bob Flood’s post answer your question? This happens form time to time due to FCPs lack of database skills. The good news is all you have to do is delete your audio render files. You should probably convert your audio files to 48k 16bit anyway, that way you won’t need to render and you won’t have problems. I notice this problem happening with a lot of cutting and pasting and renaming of timelines. If the name of the timeline changes, FCP can get confused as sometimes the render files are tied to the name of the sequence. While that makes for easy searching when you are looking for files on your harddrive that are name matched to your media in the bin/browser, it makes it harder for FCP to track.

Don’t worry man, you’ll get the hang of it.

Good luck and hope this helped.

Jeremy

[Cee Dee]

yeah it did help… thanks a lot… hopefully theyll pay more attention to improving the database issue and less on making phones 😉

[Dave Jenkins]

Are you using 44.1 audio in a 48 timeline? We had problems with 44.1 in a 48k timeline. We always convert our audio to 48k.

[Cee Dee]

i think my cd audio is all at 44.. but doesnt it render it to 48? maybe not eh? hmmm should i do all that stuff in peak, a little batch convert perhaps. thanks

[Cee Dee]

i wish i could edit my post (like the avid forum, JK!) i always forget something… umm is it better to encode audio as aac, or mp3, or leave it as aif.. thanks again 🙂 now i feel guilty pissing everyone off… sorry bout that. -c

[Cee Dee]

ok did it with amadaeus… ok im done with this post… makes me look bad… thanks -c

[Jeremy Garchow]

[cls105] “now i feel guilty pissing everyone off”

Really man, no worries. You stepped into a lion cage wearing a gazelle suit. Don’t worry, once you show the lion’s you aren’t a gazelle they’ll get disinterested and walk away and go back to sleep in the afternoon sun.

You should convert your CD audio to 48k/16 bit. FCp like both of those formats. You can use quicktime, compressor, and some use iTunes, but I find that highly annoying. Compressor for a bunch of files or quicktime for one or two files. It’s really easy and fast.

You gripes about FCP are legitimate. I love Apple and FCP, it has done me well and has really allowed me to build a business and emphasize my interests and talents … but it is not perfect. FCP does need a database overhaul. It would make onlining easier as well. Soon, FCp will be just like Avid with really high price points and mandatory service contracts. Be thankful you can do what you can do now with this free tech support you are getting here at the Cow with low priced software and editing on a single SATA drive. The other advice you got to increase your storage is also necessary. Even if you got one more SATA drive and striped it together with your other one, you’d be much better off. Ideally you should look into a RAID, but that should be another thread.

Good luck.

Jeremy